rift : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: rift	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for rift
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
rift n a gap between cloud masses; "the sun shone through a rift in the clouds" a narrow fissure in rock a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions); "they hoped to avoid a break in relations" Synonym(s): rupture, breach, break, severance, rift, falling out
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rift \Rift\, v. i. 1. To burst open; to split. --Shak. Timber . . . not apt to rif with ordnance. --Bacon. 2. To belch. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rift \Rift\, obs. p. p. of {Rive}. --Spenser.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rift \Rift\, n. [Written also {reft}.] [Dan. rift, fr. rieve to rend. See {Rive}.] 1. An opening made by riving or splitting; a cleft; a fissure. --Spenser. 2. A shallow place in a stream; a ford.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rift \Rift\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Rifted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Rifting}.] To cleave; to rive; to split; as, to rift an oak or a rock; to rift the clouds. --Longfellow. To dwell these rifted rocks between. --Wordsworth.